Archery game



Dec. 3, 1929. A B. VAUGHAN 1 ARCHERY GAME Filed March 21, 1929 VE/V 777/1.

Patented Dec. 3, 1929 UNHTED STATES PATEN' ANNE B. VAUGHAN, OF GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MORRISON BRUSHES, INC., OF GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION 013 NEW YORK ARCHERY GAME Application filed March 21, 1929. Serial No. 348,767.

, arrow disclosed in Patent No. 1,075,264,

October 7, 1913. In another aspect, the invention consists in a novel combination of bristle target and bristle arrow, whereby the arrow is made to penetrate the target more easily and deeply and to form a firmer and more secure interlocking engagement therewith than heretofore.

With these objects in View, an important feature of the invention consists in an arrow having a head with a projecting bundle of bristles surrounded by a free space at the outer end of the head. Among other advantages, this construction permits slight lateral displacement of the bristles of the arrow in meeting the bristles of the target and so improves the penetration of the arrow, as compared to that which would result from the head-on impact of a closely confined bundle of bristles encountering a bristle target surface.

As herein shown and in accordance with another feature of the invention, the free space about the bristles is furnished by providing the arrow head with an outwardlyflaring or tapering opening spaced at its outer end from the bundle of bristles. This construction presents the additional advantages that the ends of the target bristles are readily received therein when the arrow makes its impact and are gradually forced or wedged into close locking engagement with the bristles of the arrow. The arrow is thus retained firmly in place until such time as it is desired to be withdrawn.

These and other features of the invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof, selected for purposes of i1- lustration and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of the arrow head;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a portion of the arrow head and target.

The target comprises a base 10 having a large number of knots or bundles 12 of bristles inserted in the face thereof. The outer ends of the bristles lie in a plane parallel to the face of the base 10 and collectively form the face of the target which, accordingly, comprises a multiplicity of substanti ally uniformly distributed bristles located on end. The bristles may be suitably stained to intricate a bulls-eye and rings, if desired, and the base may be provided with a stand or other supporting means, not shown.

The arrow comprises an elongated head 16 through which extends a longitudinal bore 20. The head is tapered slightly toward its rear end and beveled or chamfered at its for ward end. The forward end of the bore 20 is slightly enlarged to receive a knot of bristles18 and flares outwardly at its outer end, the flaring walls being indicated by reference character 22. The flaring opening, therefore, furnishes an annular free space about the bristles 18 which converges toward the interior of the head 16.

f The bristles 18 may be secured in the head in any desired manner but, as herein shown, they are of double length and folded about the loop of a cord 24. The bristles are drawn into the arrow head by this cord and are firmly anchored in place by the shaft 1 1 of the arrow, which is then inserted in the bore 20 from the rear end of the head, being glued or otherwise fastened in place and thus retaining the ends of the cord 2 The inner end of the shaft 14L may be located substantially in contact with the inner end of the bristle knot, thus forming a bottom for the chamber in which the bristles are retained.

Referring now to Fig. 3, it will be apparent that when the arrow strikes the target, the bristles of the arrow and target interlock with each other and that the ends of the target bristles enter the flaring opening about the bristles 18 and are gradually wedged or crowded into firm engagement with the arrow bristles by the converging walls of the opening. The arrow is, therefore, retained in place against accidental displacement.

The target may be made of any desired size and a number of arrows may be discharged against it in each round of the game. The action of each arrow in the target is, of course, individual and not affected by other arrows striking it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In an archery game, the combination of atarget'having a face composed of bristles, with an arrow having a head with a cylindrical bore merging into an outwardly flaring opening and a bundle of bristles projecting out of said opening and being substantially unconfined by its flaring sides.

2. In an archery game, the combination of a target having a face composed of bristles, withan arrow having a head with a bundle ofbristles projecting therefrom and a space at the outer end of the head surrounding the bristles into which the ends of the target bristles may enter.

3. In an archery game, the combination of a bristle target, with a bristle arrow having a head with an outwardly flaring opening, the walls of which are spaced at the outer end of the opening from the bristles of the arrow toj am the target bristles into interlocking engagement with the arrow bristles.

at. In an archery game, an arrow for use with a bristle target, having a head with a longitudinally disposed opening flaring outwardly at its outer end, and a bundle of bristles secured within said opening and spaced from the head at the mouth of the opening.

5. In an archery game, an arrow for use with a bristle target, having a head with a longitudinally disposed bore flaring outward- 1y at one end, a knot of bristles forced into the flaring end of the bore, and a shaft inserted in the other end of the bore and extending substantially into contact with the inner end of the bristle knot.

6. In an archery game, an arrow for use with a bristle target, having a head with a longitudinally disposed bore extending from end to end, a knot of bristles folded midlength and inserted in one end of the bore, a

, loop of cord over which the bristles are folded,

having its'ends drawn into the bore, and a shaft inserted in the other end of the bore to hold the ends of the cord in place and thereby anchor the knot of bristles in the head.

ANNE B. VAUGHAN. 

